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(The) Adventure Game  1982 
This was the original Crystal Maze. Very strange, but going where no contestants game show went before. The idea of the game was for a team of adventirers to escape a weird planet (even with its own currency). I can vaguely remember it  gave contestants an opportunity to play a very early BBC Computer, where they were required to escape from a maze.

Adventures of Noddy 195? 
Remarkably popular though why i'll never know. Why does it seem that there was always a kid at school that fitted the description of one of Noddy's friends, Big Ears. For me Enid Blyton can stick to writing Famous Five books.
Andy Pandy 1950 


More like Mamby Pamby. Lets face it Luby Loo was not worth hanging around for. In fact if it wasn't for Big Ted, I doubt if this would of kept my interest. He was the  first star of Watch with Mother "Time to go home, time to go home, Andy is waving goodbye, goodbye." Scratch you later, Andy.


Animal Magic 1962 
With Johnny Morris. A bit of a "Doctor Doolitle" except he talked on behalf of the animals. A much needed nature program in the 70's. Though the Really Wild Show was a good update.

Arabian Knights 1968 


This was a classic saturday morning cartoon shown each week on the Banana Splits. One of the knights had great strength another could turn into anything he chose, e.g.. "Size of a Pea" for when he needs to shrink. Their was also the donkey that had immense strength when his tail was pulled. This was worth getting up for on a Saturday morning.


Are You Being Served? 1974 
62 episodes were produced of this very popular sitcom within Grace Brothers. John Inman was probably most well known for his camp catchphrase "I'm free".With such a lack of customers and so well staffed, it's a wonder the place stayed open .

Ask Aspel 1977 
Michael Aspel would interview people in a similar manor to Parkinson.

Ask the Family 1965 
All I can remember, is a classic family of 4, dad, mum, son and daughter, took on another family by answering an assortment of questions. Often there would be a closeup photo of an every day object that wasn't easy to identify, also the usual questions like "Jonny had a bag of sweets, and 2 brothers and 3 sisters, if his brothers had 4 sweets each, how many sweets would he need to keep his sisters happy". Answer ...... 8, You can't keep women happy! Though obviously they wouldn't give that answer on the show.


Babapapa 1976 
Wasn't it a bunch of big blobby creatures that could change into any shape? Very weird.

Babar the Elephant 196? 


  Bagpuss 1974 
Every time I yawn, I say "..and when Bagpuss goes to sleep..!" So even though in its day I can't say I was a great fan of it, it certainly has a long lasting nostalgia factor. Emily was a little girl who found junk, and all the ornaments and toys came to life when she wasn't looking , mending the junk and telling a story about it while the magic worked. Only 13 episodes were ever made but with all the repeats it feels like a thousand and thirteen. Joining Bagpuss the fat cat was the Mice on the mouse organ, Madeleine the doll, Gabriel the toad and Professor Yaffle the woodpecker bookend.


(The) Banana Splits 1968 
This American saturday morning show starred Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snorky. In between the madhouse antics we were introduced to Arabian Knights, Danger Island and also he Three Musketeers.


Barnaby 1973 
This guy caused me a lot of confusion. He was called Barnaby the Bear, whereas Warner Bros. had a cartoon called Barney Bear. When your  5 or 6 years old it can be a bit confusing. Anyway this guy (of whom I had a teddy of) spoke about not calling him Jack or James in the intro song, that's about all i can remember.


Basil Brush Show 1968 
Roy North put up with one of the most annoying glove puppets on earth.


Batman 1966 
ZAP! POW! BAM!, and a "Holy mackeral, Batman." Joining our caped crusaders were his old enemies of Gotham City such as The Joker, The Riddler, Mr Freeze, The Penguin and Catwoman. One of the most hilarious moments is when the cameramen think that by putting the camera on its side it appears they climb walls. Extremely effective? No! Extremely funny? Yes!


Big John, Little John 1969 
This was a series about a bloke named John, who one minute was an adult and the next minute shrunk to a boy. Seeing how he coped with the awkward situations was the American plot.


Bill and Ben 1952 



Bless this House 1971 
This comedy was brilliant due to Sid James. It was about an average family of the seventies, with a father and mother and two teenage children into motorbikes, girlfriends/boyfriends, loud music, hippy movements and so on.


Blue Peter 1958 
A mighty classic that still stands to this day. For me, Blue Peter were : John Noakes who later went on to do a series called "Go With Noakes", Valerie Singleton, Peter Purves who went on to do a trials program called "Kick-start" and Lesley Judd. The animals included Shep and Petra along with a hibernating tortoise. ITV's answer to Blue Peter was "Magpie" of which I know very little.


Bod 1976 
Another Dereck Griffiths song and story compilation including characters such as Barley Mo, PC Plod and Aunt Flo. Also a cartoon involving an animal band led by Alberta Frog was concluded each time with the perplexing problem of fathoming out what flavour milk-shake Alberta would have this time.


Bonanza 1960 


(The) Book Tower 1977 

Camberwick Green 1966 
 Isn't this the Windy Miller one? Also at Pippins Fort the soldiers used to help out (like delivering milk for Farmer Bell). If you really want to have a good laugh at this, then try dubbing voices over the top of the animation, it can give some very entertaining evenings.


Captain Caveman 197? 
Lets face it, this has to be one of the Slag Brothers out of Wacky Races. Joining him are a group of girls who look like there nicked from Josie and the Pussycats, renamed The Teen Angels.


Captain Pugwash 1957 
Well  it all seemed rather innocent at the time, it's since been banned from children's tv, which isn't a bad thing from any point of view, in fact wasn't there a similar animation called "Sir Prancelot" in a similar style program. Jumping jellyfish! Cut Throat Jakes arrived.


Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons 1968 
 Another Gerry Anderson puppet show, by now Ii had started getting them all confused into one!32 episodes were made and based on an invasion on Mars gone wrong in 2065 AD.


Catch the Pigeon 
Amazing inventions airborne all going wrong with a purpose off stopping a stupid pigeon. Each cartoon had the same ending where a phone would ring and when answered, a hand came out of the phone and snatched the medals off Dick Dastardley`s chest. Also there was a fat pilot who had every "ziinnggg...poppp...chowowo" translated by a very nervous skinny bloke.

Catweazle 1970 
Usual story about a 11th Century tramp who gets trapped in the 20th Century. He thought a light-bulb was the sun trapped in a bottle, etc.

Celebrity Squares 1975 
Yet another Bob Monkhouse quiz. Using 9 half famous people, the contestants played noughts and crosses by matching the answers with the questions.

(The) Champions 1969 

(The) Changes 1975 
This is a really vague description of a children's serial that showed a girl who was badly effected by anything electrical around her. I can particularly remember her suffering when next to electric pylons. Thats about all I can remember of this 70`s BBC children's program. It was very haunting.

Charlie's Angels 1976 
Once upon a time there were 3 girls who went to the police academy and they were each assigned very hazardous duties, but I took them away from all that and now they work for me. My name is Charlie.

Chigley 1969 
 The least interesting of the 3 Gordan Murry productions. I can remember all the workers after the whistle would gather round the organ and dance with there parteners.

(The) Clangers 1969 
Whistling socks concerned about keeping the Soup Dragon happy.27 episodes were made in total.This was produced by Oliver Postgate of Bagpuss , Pogles Wood and Ivor the Engine fame.


Clapperboard 1972 
All I remember is this was an early version of "Film '98" except it was a look at films by Chris Kelly. 

Cooper 1957 
Tommy Cooper, a brilliant magician who made every trick go right by making every trick go wrong.

Coronation Street 1960 
Originally entitled Florizel Street

Crackerjack 1955 
To this day, people still have been known to say "It's friday, it`s 5 to 5, it's CRACKERJACK !" and yet when you looked at the prizes given away, it's a wonder anyone wants to remember it....cabbages, a Crackerjack pencil and in the later series they splashed out on Crackerjack pens. Overall it was the feel good factor of being a friday, and school had finished for another week, behind the psychological effect of watching a silly pantomime at the conclusion of the show that no doubt was responsible for its success. Appearances from Eamon Andrews, Ronnie Corbett, Peter Glaze, Don MacLean,  Michael Aspel, Ed Stewart and Stu Francis.

Crossroads 1964 
Classic soap opera, at a hotel somewhere upnorth. Benny and miss Diane....unforgetable. The King's Oak Crossroads Motel was blown up - in the script. This was the on-screen reason for in reality ATV were moving there studio and would be building new sets.

Crystal Tips and Alistair 197? 
A not very animated cartoon about a girl and her dog, always shown at 5.40pm just before the news. 

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